Meat-cutter



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ME'AT'GUTTER.

Patented Feb. 27, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM G. BELL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

.M EAT-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 273,220, dated February 27, 1888.

' V Application filed June 22, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern vided with-a pulley, c, to which a rotary mo- Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. BELL, a tion may be applied by means of a beltor cord; citizen of the United States, residing at Bosor said shaft may be actuated by hand-power ton, in the county of Suffolk and State of Masapplied to the crank c for the smaller sizes sachusetts, haveinvented certain new and useof machines. v

ful Improvements in-Meat-Outters; and I do To the shaft 0 is securedthe beveLpinion c -hereby declare that the same are fully de- ,that engages into the teeth of the bevel-gear scribed in the following specification and illus- 11, secured to the cutter-shaft d, the latter betrated in the accompanying drawings. ingjournaled in the bearing d, which forms a to This invention relates to improvements in part of and unites the upperends of the brackmeat-cutting machines for making-mince or ets a 0. The bevel-gear d has cast in one sausage meat, and it is carried out as follows, piece with it a sleeve, d which terminates bereference being bad to the accompanying drawlow the bearing d as an annular flange or colings, on which lar, d, by which arrangement greater strength Figure 1 represents a front elevation, and is obtained, as the strain on the cutter-shattis Fig. 2 represents a central longitudinal sectransferred to the bearing (1 and brackets a tion, of the improved meat-cutter. Fig. 3 rep at from the upper end or head, a of the cylinresents a bottom View, and Fig. 4 represents der a, by which all danger of burstingor crackacross-section on theline AA,shown in Fig. 2. ing the said cylinder or its upper head is ob- Similar letters refer to similar parts when viated. The cutter-shaft d passes through a ever they occur on the difi'erent' parts of the perforation in the head 0. into the cylinder or, drawings. where it is provided with the usual feeder a is the vertical cylinder or meat-receptacle, wing or propeller, D, which, in combination in which the meat is cut up by means of the with the internal screw-tl1read,a ,at the upper rotary cutter and stationary knives, such cylend of the cylinder (0, serves to feed the meat inder being cast in one single piece, without downward to the cutting mechanism, hereinafany joints whatever, by which all leakage of ter to be described. The lower end of the cylmeat particles or fibers or juice is entirely inder a is open, and covered when the maavoided. By the employment of a vertical chine is in operation by lllGAllS-Of the detach- 0 cylinder, at, in meat-cutting machines, the adable cover 0, having an outwardly-projecting vantage is obtained of more evenly distiibutannular flange, c, by means of which and a ing the meat within the cylinder, and of cutpair of hinged books, 0 e, the said cover 6 is ting it up uniformly throughout its whole secured to the lowerend of the cylinder a. The mass, without liability of clogging toward one cover 0 may be detached from said cylinder at 5 side of the cylinder, as is the case in the use by simply detaching the hooked ends of the of the ordinary horizontal meat-cutting mabooks 6" from their hold on the flange e, as chines. usual in meat-cutting machines.

a a are flanges or brackets cast on the exf f f represent the rotary cutters on the shaft terior of the vertical cylinder at, by means 0t" 61, and fff represent-the washers or dividers 40 which and suitable screws or hooks said cylon the said shaft d, one between two succesinder a is secured to the upright wall I) or sive cutters ff, as shown in Fig. 2, as usual. equivalent frame-work. The lower end of the cutter-shaft (Z passes a is a mouth-piece or orifice near the top through a central perforation in the cover 0, in y of the cylinder at, through which the meat is which it has its lower support and bearing, as

5 dropped or fed into the top of said cylinder a. shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

preparatory to being cut and minced. f represents the cylindrical sleeve, located a a are brackets extending upward from" on the shaft 01, below its lowest cutter, which the top of cylinder at, which brackets tersleeve has a lateral pertoratioruf through min-ate in their upper ends as bearings a a which, as well as through the slotted perforai 5) for the horizontal driving-shaft c, which is protion 01 in the shaft (1, is inserted the pin or barf, that is pressed upward against the sleeve f" by means of the central set-screw, d, in the ordinary manner, by which arrangement the rotary cutters ff are firmly secured in place on the shaft (1.

On the circumference of the cylinder to are cast longitudinal knife-receptacles g g g, in which the stationary knives or cutters g g and intermediate washers or dividers, g" g, are lo cated upon spindlesg which pass through perforations in the said cutters and dividers, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. Each spindle rests in its upper end in a corresponding recess, 9 in the upper end of each knife-receptacle g, as shownin Fig. 2. Thelower end ofeach spindle g has an offset at the junction of the lower end of the cylinder at and the cover 6, and projects through said cover as a reduced shank or bolt, 9 that projects downward through a corresponding hole in said cover e, to which it is secured by means of a nut, 9 as shown in Fig. 2.

By the construction and arrangement as hereinabove described I am able to insert the stationary cutters g g and to hold them firmly in their places within the receptacles g g simply by first securing the spindles g g g to the cover 0, after which the cutters g g and dividers g g are placed serially on said spindles g and the latter, with their cutters and dividers, introduced from below in the knifercceptacles g 9, after which the cover 6 is secured to the cylinder at by means of the fastening-hooks eee. In this manner the stationary cutters g g may be removed with case from the interior of their receptacles g g in case they need to be sharpened or replaced by others.

For the purpose of properly regulating the fineness of the meat delivered from the machine, I make through the cover can elongated perforation, h, (shown in Fig. 2,) and also by the black curved arch in Fig. 3, which opening may be covered more or less by the rotary slide orcut-off disk 71/, located around the shaft d on the inside of the cover 0, and adapted to be turned loosely around said shaft d. The rotary cut-01f disk h is provided with an elongated slot hole or opening, it. (Shown in dotted lines in Fig.3.) Into the disk h is screwed the thumbscrew h after first passing through the curved slot h in the cover a, and in this manner the disk It may be swung around the shaft d, so as to more or less cover the delivery-opening IL in the cover 0, and thus to regulate the amount of cut meat delivered in a given time from the cylinder a, as well as its fineness. After the disk h is turned to its required position' it is secured in place to the cover 0 by means ofthe thumb-screw h as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

Having thus fully described the nature, construction, and operation of my invention, I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim 1. In amea-t-cutter, the combination of the vertical cylinder a, having brackets a and detachable bearings d, and the rotary cutter shaft having the bevel spur-wheel d, formed with a flanged sleeve, d d, with the horizontal driving-shaft c,journaled in the brackets (0 and provided with the spur-wheel a and the rotary and stationary cutters, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a meat-cutter, the combination of the vertical cylinder at, having vertical pockets g and an upperledge provided with internal seats, with the stationary cutters g, the vertical rods having cutters fitted thereon. and the detachable end head, 6, carrying the cutters and rods 9 as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have atfixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM G. BELL.

Witnesses ALBAN ANDRE'N, J OSEPH WEISSBAOH. 

